During LPC2022 I meetup with my page_pool co-maintainer Ilias. When discussing page_pool code we realised/remembered certain optimizations had not been fully utilised. Since commit c07aea3ef4d4 ("mm: add a signature in struct page") struct page have a direct pointer to the page_pool object this page was allocated from. Thus, with this info it is possible to skip the rhashtable_lookup to find the page_pool object in __xdp_return(). The rcu_read_lock can be removed as it was tied to xdp_mem_allocator. The page_pool object is still safe to access as it tracks inflight pages and (potentially) schedules final release from a work queue. Created a micro benchmark of XDP redirecting from mlx5 into veth with XDP_DROP bpf-prog on the peer veth device. This increased performance 6.5% from approx 8.45Mpps to 9Mpps corresponding to using 7 nanosec (27 cycles at 3.8GHz) less per packet. Suggested-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/166377993287.1737053.10258297257583703949.stgit@firesoul Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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